News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-12-01
SHE MARRIES LATE.
One of the Common characteristics
the Boston Girl
From the st. Leuis Globe.l

The Boston society girl, as rule does
not marry young. In this hyperborean
climate the female of our species bios
SONS late. At 20 she is simply bud,
and she does not fairly bloom until she
is three or four years older. In cold
countries women, like vegetable growths
develope slowly. Here it is winter
eight months in the year, and there is
small chance for anything to spfout. At
sweet 16 the sprightly maiden of our
modern Athens is in pinafofes. At 10
she is still in short dresses; going to
school; for this is the English style, you
know, and whatever is British ''goes"
in this town. If she is a younger sister
her servitude in the nursery is well nigh
hopeless. But even after she has emer-
ged from the chrysalis of immaturity
into the condition of the fashionable
butterfly her education is indefinitely
continued. In the intervals of social
dissipation she is obliged to attend all
sorts of lectures on the most abstruse
subjects. She pursues eccentric courses
of reading, and acquires an intimate
knowledge of strange religions and out
of-the-way PHILOSOPHERS. In classes with
the others of her sex she occupies her
time in cultivating the arts and sciences.
Thus she is able to attain degree of
mental superiority which renders it pos
sible for her to look down with immeas-
urable contempt upon her fellow crea-
lures in pantaloons. In case she does
not marry, this scorn of the inferior mas
culine gender is likely to be steadily and
progressively aggravated with advanc-
ing years.
have observed with pain that Boston
women generally seem to consider it
quite the thing to look down upon the
men. 1t is very hard. L really connot
imagine why its so. But they do. It
appears to be the fashion here to regard
the male animal of the genus homo as
rather a necessary evil than otherwise.
As a producer of money he is useful,
but in all else not particularly desirable.
If available rs a partner in marriage he
receives the attention due to such rari-
ty; but once disposed of matrimonially
he lapses into the forlorn condition of
other Benedicts, who pass their time,
when not engaged in business, lounging
at the clubs, while their wives are busy
forwarding the work of societies for the
advancement of human knowledge in
various branches. | was talking the
other day with a fair acquaintance of
mine about the recently en-
gagement of a girl we both knew
"What sort of a fellow is the prospective
husband" L asked.
''Oh, harmless was the reply, with
shrug of the shoulders which was evil
IDENTIFY intended to express conviction
that a mountaineering disposition was
the best thing to be expected in a man.
At any rate, this is the view entertain
ed by the typical young woman of our
enlightened metropolis. She marries
late if at all, because the young man
too few in number to supply
the market-must struggle long and
hard i'll this overcrowded community
before they find themselves in posi-
ton to support family. I would
strongly advise the Boston girl to ''go
West" and seek refuge from old maid-
enhood in far Dakota or Montana, where |
in petticoats is at premium.